Uruguay

Latin America still continues to be one of the regions with the most income inequality in the world. Uruguay has the best Gini coefficient in Latin America while Honduras has the greatest income inequality in the region. Uruguay president donates 90% of his income to charity and chooses to live a modest way. Countries with more socialist governments have the lowest levels of income inequality. Uruguay, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua fall under these governments and they have the…

Chapter 1 of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States discusses the lives of natives of the Americas both prior to and after the arrival of European explorers, and includes a statement by the author on writing history. To begin, Christopher Columbus’s voyages to the Americas are covered heavily in the chapter, and I consider these themes regarding him to be the most important: • “The information that Columbus wanted most was: Where is the gold? He had persuaded the king and…

After he helped Uruguay, he sailed back to his hometown of Nice, where he made a deal to work for the King of the Piedmont. It was here where he sparked a revolt, and had his first major victory at San Pancrazio gate. Him and his army were unstoppable, they were pushing…

Uruguay: The World Cup “Goooooooaaaaallllllllllll!” Miguel screamed. Mama trembled into the room with a dish rag in her hand. Her appearance into the radio room was very seldom. She was either doing her hair or demanding commands. “What is wrong Miguel?” “Nothing is wrong Mama, Guillermo Stabile scored a goal! It is that simple.” Miguel replied making Mama feel dumbfounded. “Anyway,” Mama said, “I’m going to check on your brother.” It felt like Mama was giving Miguel…

According to Carlos Fuentes, the most important piece of literature in Latin America was the poem Martín Fierro. The Martín Fierro was written in Argentina in 1872 by José Hernández. It was a narrative poem written in verse. In 1879 a second part was written called La Vuelta de Martín Fierro (The Return of Martín Fierro). The Martín Fierro redeems and glorifies the heroic outlaw gaucho at the moment when the gaucho was vanishing (Barnstone, 2003). In these books the author reflected a clear…

development. The Tokyo Round during the seventies also had a lightly different focus and as a result was the first major attempt to tackle trade barriers that do not take the form of tariffs, and to improve the system. The eighth and final round, the Uruguay Round of 1986-94, was the last and most extensive of all. This led to the creation WTO and a new set of…

of Versailles (Miron). After they signed this treaty the UN and other countries put a ban on all drugs on a global scale (Miron). Since then countries have been debating whether or not to override those rules (Miron). Jose Mujica the president of Uruguay a country near the UN, fully legalized marijuana on December 23, 2013 (Miron). When they did this it marked the first full legalization of an illicit drug since 1919 (Miron). Prohibition has shown over and over that there is no good benefit…

Located in the south-eastern region of South America, with a total land mass of 2.78 million kilometers squared—making it the eighth largest country in the entire world—Argentina, also known as la República Argentina or Argentine Republic, is one of the wealthiest and most prosperous countries out of all its Latin American constituents. It is bordered exclusively by Chile to the west, Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, and Brazil partially to the northeast. Out of the twelve Latin American…

exemplify corporate control of a consumer society. Recently in Uruguay, the Philip Morris tobacco company sued the country for enforcing health codes by printing disturbing warnings of the impacts of tobacco use. As a result, the small country claimed that they had the right to protect the health of their citizens. According to Silvina Acevedo, the leading advisor on the case, “It (Philip Morris corporation) closed its factory in Uruguay during the dispute, leaving 40 workers out…

My overarching research interests focuses on delineating animal 's metabolic responses to nutrition interventions or health conditions, associated with the animal performance and quality of its derived products. I use a combination of modern analytical chemistry (liquid/gas chromatography and mass spectrometry) and bioinformatics (univariate and multivariate statistical analysis) to measure metabolites in biological samples to provide insights on physiological or pathological status and…